{"id":573898978,"date":"2026-05-15T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898978"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:35:44","slug":"i-spun-around-the-hello-summer-sign-on-the-front-porch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/05\/15\/i-spun-around-the-hello-summer-sign-on-the-front-porch-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I spun around the &#8216;Hello Summer&#8221; sign on the front porch today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the backyard we have a few irises that are showing off. I shot this from the hip as we were between hither and thither &#8230; or was it after the yon? Who can keep it straight? Who needs to keep it straight? It&#8217;s Friday! <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may26\/may19.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My grading is complete. The semester is complete. Well, I must still submit my grades, which I&#8217;ll do this weekend. And I have a meeting Monday. And another one Wednesday. And at least three others to be determined. Some of those, at least will be a part of the mental shift from this term to the fall term, with a lot of summer in between. <\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to the summer in between. I am going to read a lot. I am going to finish some projects. I&#8217;m going to not think about work for a long while. That might be the hardest part. It will also be valuable. And that begins at the conclusion of the two meetings next week.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder when it actually start to mentally feel like summer this year. I&#8217;ll let you know.   <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaaz3by\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/21\/malin-head\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is Malin Head<\/a> &#8212; and it is absolutely worth seeing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the backyard we have a few irises that are showing off. I shot this from the hip as we were between hither and thither &#8230; or was it after the yon? Who can keep it straight? Who needs to keep it straight? It&#8217;s Friday! My grading is complete. The semester is complete. Well, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,62,6,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-ireland","category-memories","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573898978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898981,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898978\/revisions\/573898981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}